Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.

God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?